Reon Toerien wrote:
There must be a way to do this from Linux without resorting to windows tools. Relevant blocks must be written to a file and then used by ddrescue.
NTFS is a windows FS, ddrescue also exists as a Windows(Cygwin) port. So I presumed that you have access to a windows system.
Sleuthkit supports NTFS and is available on many Linux Live systems and distributions.
http://www.sleuthkit.org/ An example use case from Ubuntu-Rescue-Remix website: http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/node/180 A python script, but it relies on nfi.exe: http://superuser.com/questions/346381/how-can-i-generate-a-list-of-files-from-a-list-of-sectors Christian
On 28 January 2012 19:36, Christian Franke <... <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Reon Toerien wrote: Hi, Here's the scenario: Filesystem is NTFS and contains some mbox mail files. I need to identify the blocks on the HDD used by these files and only image those specific blocks with ddrescue instead of the entire partition and recover those files. Any ideas, recommendations & links? The old (1999) windows tool nfi.exe can be used to map file path names to logical block numbers and vice versa. Still works on Win7 if disk uses MBR partition table. The tool was carefully hidden :-) in some OEM support tools package which is still available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253066/ Christian
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